EKAW Conference Programme

 

Monday 4th October
 
16.00 - 20.00 Registration

19.00 - 20.00 Drinks Reception




Tuesday 5th October
 
09.00 - 09.15 Welcome

09.15 - 10.30
The Theory of Top-Level Ontological Mappings and its Application to Clinical Trial Protocols.
Heinrich Herre, Barbara Heller, Kristin Lippoldt
30 mins
   
Generating and Integrating Evidence for Ontology Mappings
Ludger van Elst, Malte Kiesel
30 mins
   
Ontology translation approaches for interoperability: a case study with Protégé-2000 and WebODE
Oscar Corcho, Asunción Gómez-Pérez
15 mins

10.30 - 10.45 Break

10.45 - 12.15
On the Foundations of UML as an Ontology Representation Language
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Gerd Wagner, Heinrich Herre
30 mins
   
OWL Pizzas: Practical Experience of Teaching OWL-DL: Common Errors & Common Patterns
Hai Wang, Alan Rector, Nick Drummond, Matthew Horridge, et al.
30 mins
   
Using a novel ORM-based ontology modelling method to build an experimental Innovation Router
Sven Van Acker, Peter Spyns, Marleen Wynants, Mustafa Jarrar, et al.
15 mins
   
Ontology-based Functional-knowledge Modeling Methodology and its Deployment
Yoshinobu Kitamura, Riichiro Mizoguchi
15 mins

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.00 Speaker: Tom Rodden

15.00 - 16.00
Accuracy of Metrics for Inferring Trust and Reputation in Semantic Web-based Social Networks
Jennifer Golbeck, James Hendler
30 mins
   
Semantic Webs for Learning: A Vision and its Realization
Arthur Stutt, Enrico Motta
30 mins

16.00 - 16.15 Break

16.15 - 17.00
Managing Patient Record Instances
Bo Hu, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, David Dupplaw, Paul Lewis, et al
30 mins
   
Medical Ontology and Virtual Staff for a Health Network
Rose Dieng-Kuntz, David Minier, Frédéric Corby, Marek Ruzicka, Olivier
Corby, Laurent Alamarguy, Phuc-Hiep Luong
15 mins

17.00 - 18.30 Poster Sessions




Wednesday 6th October
 
09.00 - 10.00 Speaker: Steffen Staab

10.00 - 11.00
A Semantic Portal for the International Affairs Sector
Jesus Contreras
30 mins
   
OntoWeaver-S: Supporting the Design of Knowledge Portals
Yuangui Lei, Enrico Motta, John Domingue
30 mins

11.00 - 11.15 Break

11.15 - 12.15
Graph-based Acquisition of Expressive Knowledge
John Pacheco, Vinay Chaudhri, Kenneth Murray, Peter Clark, et al.
30 mins
   
Incremental Knowledge Acquisition for Improving Probabilistic Search Algorithms
JP Bekmann, Achim Hoffmann
30 mins

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 16.00
Extending Semantic-Based Matchmaking via Concept Abduction and Contraction
Eugenio Di Sciascio, Tommaso Di Noia, Francesco Donini

30 mins
   
Configuration of Web Services as Parametric Design
Frank van Harmelen, Annette ten Teije, Bob Wielinga
30 mins
   
Knowledge Modelling for Deductive Web Mining
Vojtech Svatek, Martin Labsky, Miroslav Vacura
15 mins
   
On the Knowledge Level of an On-line Shop Assistant
Nenad Stojanovic
15 mins
   
A Customer Notification Agent for Financial Overdrawn using Semantic Web Services
José Manuel López Cobo, Oscar Corcho, Silvestre Losada, Marcos Niño
15 mins
   
Aggregating Web Services with active invocation and ensembles of string distance metrics
Eddie Johnston, Nicholas Kushmerick
15 mins

16.00 - 16.15 Break

16.15 - 17.00
Enhancing the Ontological Knowledge through Ontology Population and Enrichment
Alexandros Valarakos
30 mins
   
Refactoring Methods for Knowledge Bases
Joachim Baumeister, Frank Puppe, Dietmar Seipel

15 mins

17.00 - 18.30 Demonstrations




Thursday 7th October
 
09.00 - 10.00 Speaker: Yorick Wilks

10.00 - 11.00
Parallel Knowledge Base Development by Subject Matter Experts
Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu, Bogdan Stanescu, et al.
30 mins
   
Designing a Procedure for the Acquisition of Probability Constraints for Bayesian Networks
Eveline M. Helsper, Linda C. van der Gaag, Floris Groenendaal
15 mins
   
Invented Predicates to Reduce Knowledge Acquisition
Hendra Suryanto, Paul Compton
15 mins

11.00 - 11.15 Break

11.15 - 12.30
KATS: A knowledge acquisition tool based on electronic document processing
Martin Molina, Gemma Blasco
30 mins
   
SERSE: Searching for Digital Content in Esperonto
Valentina Tamma, Ian Blacoe, Ben Lithgow Smith, Michael Wooldridge
15 mins
   
A Topic-Based Browser for Large Online Resources
Heiner Stuckenschmidt
15 mins
   
Knowledge Formulation for AI Planning
Ronald Simpson, Lee McCluskey
15 mins

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 19.00 Social Outing

20.00 - 00.00 Conference Banquet




Friday 8 th October
 
10.00 - 13.00 Workshops / Tutorials

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 17.00 Workshops / Tutorials